State Attorneys General File New Antitrust Lawsuit Against Google Over App Store
Google is facing another antitrust lawsuit from a coalition of attorneys general as the government officials target the tech giant for its business practices, claiming that it is trying to gain an...
View ArticleWGA, Public Interest Groups Ask FTC To Block Amazon-MGM Deal; Slam “Clear...
Thirty-four groups from the Writers Guild of America West to Public Citizen to Demand Progress have appealed to the Federal Trade Commission to block Amazon’s proposed acquisition of MGM, which they...
View ArticleApple Acted Like A Monopoly, Judge In Epic Games Case Rules, But Mixed Ruling...
Apple has been found to “hide critical information from consumers and illegally stifle consumer choice,” a judge ruled in the company’s legal battle with Epic Games, but the mixed decision will leave...
View ArticleWGA, Teamsters & Other Unions Urge FTC to Contest Amazon-MGM’s Done Deal;...
The Writers Guild of America West and a coalition of unions launched another salvo against Amazon-MGM, urging antitrust watchdog, the Federal Trade Commission, to contest the deal even though it...
View ArticlePenguin Random House-Simon & Schuster Merger Won’t Drive Down Author Advances...
UPDATE: Penguin Random House’s proposed merger with Simon & Schuster will not drive down author advances and they will “continue to go up,” the attorney for the publisher said in opening arguments...
View ArticleDOJ Said To Have Launched Live Nation-Ticketmaster Investigation; Probe...
Live Nation Entertainment, the parent company of Ticketmaster, is the focus of an antitrust investigation that predates the Taylor Swift ticket snafu this week, according to a report. The...
View ArticleParamount Global Terminates $2.2B Simon & Schuster Sale But Still Wants Out...
A major publishing deal is officially dead in the water as Paramount Global scrapped its sale of Simon & Schuster to Bertelsmann’s Penguin Random House, declining to pursue an appeal after the...
View ArticleJustice Department Sues Google, Seeks Breakup Of Company’s Digital...
The Justice Department and a group of states have filed an antitrust suit against Google, claiming the internet giant has used its “stranglehold” over digital tools to quash threats to its dominance in...
View ArticleGoogle’s Attorney Says It Can’t Be Blamed For Microsoft’s Failure To Innovate...
UPDATE: Google’s market dominance has been due to the company’s continuous innovation in its search engine, not by exclusionary conduct that stifle competitors like Microsoft’s Bing, the company’s lead...
View ArticleAmazon Sued By FTC, 17 States Over Alleged Retail Monopoly
The Federal Trade Commission and 17 states have filed an antitrust lawsuit against Amazon, alleging that the tech retailer has used illegal tactics in pursuit of a retail monopoly. The commission cited...
View ArticleDisney Must Face Pared-Down Antitrust Suit On Live Streaming Pay TV, Says...
A federal judge in California ruled today that a class action antitrust lawsuit against Disney can go forward, though he struck down a chunk of the case, which was filed last fall. A group of YouTube...
View ArticleGoogle Paying $700 Million To Settle States’ Lawsuit Alleging Monopolistic...
Fresh off a landmark legal defeat last week, Google has now agreed to settle a separate suit by a coalition state attorneys general – co-led by New York AG Letitia James — accusing the tech giant of...
View ArticleEndeavor-Run TKO Group Pays $335 Million To Settle Antitrust Suit By UFC...
TKO Group Holdings, the Endeavor-run parent of the UFC, has agreed to pay $335 million to settle a lawsuit filed nearly a decade ago by fighters in the mixed-martial-arts organization. The settlement...
View ArticleJustice Department Sues Apple, Claiming Illegal Monopoly Over Smartphone Market
The Justice Department and more than a dozen state attorneys general have sued Apple, claiming that the tech giant has an illegal monopoly over the smartphone market. Attorney General Merrick Garland...
View ArticleInternational Insider: Drama In UK Drama; Cannes Plan Underway; Studiocanal...
Welcome back, Insider crew. Jesse Whittock taking you through another eventful week in film and TV. Let’s begin. Drama In UK Drama Antitrust the process: Not great news for the UK’s fabled TV drama...
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